Director, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy Professor of Public Policy (HKS) Professor of Education and Economics (HGSE)
Research interests: Economics of skill development, education, and the labor market. The long-run influence of school accountability: impacts, mechanisms, and policy implications. The growing return to social skills in the labor market.
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
We mourn the loss of Devah Pager, who served as Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy and as Chair of Harvard's Joint PhD Programs in Social Policy until her death on November 2, 2018. We remember Devah with deep appreciation for the remarkable community she fostered.
Learn more about Devah's seminal work as a scholar in The New York Times obituary.
Research interests: Institutions affecting racial stratification, including education, labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Inequality, race, discrimination, punishment.
Research interests: Applied economics. Intersection of race, education and government. Educational and political ramifications of acts of police violence. Effects of federal election oversight on minority turnout and political polarization.
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Research interests: Poverty and welfare, economic mobility. Labor economics, family change, low pay and unemployment, changing structure of American families.
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship
Research interests: Political scientist. How participation, deliberation and transparency can make contemporary public governance more fair and effective.
Research interests: Economics of education. Impact of math coursework on students' longer-run outcomes and the impact of college choice on degree completion.
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus
Research interests: Changes in family structure over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and the effects of welfare reform.
Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy
Research interests: Historian, with a focus on explanation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. Election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.
Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor in Public Management Co-founder, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory
Research interests: A psychologist who draws on insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience in order to elucidate human judgment and decision making. Predicting effects of specific emotions on specific judgment and choice outcomes. Expanding the evidentiary base for designing public policies that maximize human wellbeing.
